On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 08:49 -0600, Daryl Herzmann wrote:
> I was puzzled to see the most recent kernel errata come out with a version
> number of "2.6.18-53.1.13" compared with the last kernel of "...6", that's
> 7 bumps for fixing 1 security issue?

That refers to the build of the RPM, not the version of the kernel.
2.6.18 is the Kernel version, 53.1.13 is the RPM version number.


When I build an RPM, I change the version every time I make an update to
the RPM, whether it fixes an issue or it fixes a fix to an issue.

Lets say I apply a patch, so I bump the RPM version up. I then find out
that the patched binary didn't work properly, so I redo it (new
version). I then find out that fixing this broke some other thing, so I
correct that and rebuild (new version number). I then find out I forgot
to update the changelog in the .spec file, so I update that and rebuild
(new version number).

I can quite easily believe that including one patch requires multiple
RPM rebuilds and therefore a huge number of version changes in the
RPM... which explains why it's 2.6.18-53.1.13 rather than 2.6.18-11 (I'm
making up the 11 versions, I think there's been loads more kernel RPM
releases in RHEL4.)

--
Sam

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